Michael Shay's Hummingbirdminds

On the morning after I watched the conclusion of “Death by Lightning" on Netflix. One of the final scenes really got to me. It’s Firs...

My father, 21, standing out in a field in France, February 1945. He writes a caption to the photo: “I hadn’t had a haircut in three months. ...

Michael Connelly, best-selling author and UF and Independent Florida Alligator alum is now writing about his days as a reporter in Daytona ...

Again. Make America Great Again I’ve been exploring this phrase as it has taken over conversations, rallies, bots, blather, mind games, ...

  Courtesy the Denver Public Library by way of a librarian/propagandist/writer  from Wyoming. The downtown DPL was the first library my pare...

(Continued from Jan. 13) I spend a lot of time at Malcolm Fraser’s “The Soul Escaping Death” painting flanked by a framed spread of many m...

The most beautiful song about missing snow at Christmas is one written by Steve Goodman and performed by Nitty Gritty Dirt Band. The song’s ...

In my novel manuscript, “Zeppelins over Denver,” three sisters from Ohio travel west in the summer of 1919. Their first goal is to negotiate...

WELCOME TO 7,220 FEET. That's a huge sign on UW's War Memorial Stadium. It's meant to psyche-out teams visiting from lower altit...

My two most recent reads were “on the road” style of historical fiction novels: “West with Giraffes” by Lynda Rutledge and “Gone, the Redeem...

Denver When you’re gone you’re gone. That first house you bought on South Grant Street, some kids you don’t know slide down the driveway o...

The Colorado Sun reposted this piece by Jason Blevins in the Outsider newsletter: The Rainbow Gathering of the Tribes  plans to return t...

Sad news arrived from Denver today. Stevon Lucero, the Chicano artists who I profiled in a Oct. 29  WyoFile story  and linked here , passed ...

There's a story here. That's what I said to myself when I found out that two Chicano artists with Wyoming roots were charged with in...

"You can't go back home to your family, back home to your childhood ... back home to a young man's dreams of glory and of fame ...

For my novel set in 1919 Denver, I've conducted research on World War I, women's suffrage, Prohibition, transportation, and the Flu ...

So many good causes in this time of COVID-19. Health professionals need PPE. Local small businesses need us to buy their wares so they can ...

I am coming to the end of a first draft of a novel set in 1919 Denver. I wasn't around then so I've done a lot of research to get a ...

I can't remember The Retiree's name. He had worked in my division, Information Services, at Denver's Gates Rubber Company, befor...

Where do you look for work when you're new to Denver? Ski shop? Sure. Colorado was crazy for skiing in 1978 and it was affordable too....